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John Russell
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Initially Posted - 07/14/2010 :  18:47:11  Show Profile
I'm just thinking out loud here but I'd like some opinions on the wisdom of selling my trailer without selling the boat. I think that it would sell for a good price and allow me to keep Kaija moored and stored for another year or more. Of course, I'd have to buy boat stands or a cradle. It would also make my boat less attractive to potential buyers down the road. It would also plant me at my current marina or one nearby but I think I'd like to move it closer to home.

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John Russell
1999 C250 SR/WK #410
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banjoman
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Response Posted - 07/14/2010 :  19:47:32  Show Profile
From the guy who may be looking for a trailer (depending on what boat i try to buy). I have to be honest. It would be hard for you to sell your boat without it.
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Response Posted - 07/14/2010 :  20:01:42  Show Profile
I don't know how it is around your part of Ohio, but I'm thinking that people who are serious about a trailer are likely to be more interested in a WB than a WK. I suspect most folks in CT would keep a WK in a boatyard (where the stands are provided). Maybe you could ask a Catalina dealer there about how many WKs he's sold with and without trailers.
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 07/14/2010 :  20:04:15  Show Profile
I was able to buy our C-25 without a trailer initially because it was on one nearby lake and there was a trailer available to move it to our lake. Later I spent a lot of time trying to find a a trailer and ended up buying one quite some distance away.
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 07/14/2010 :  21:10:43  Show Profile
I have a WK and a trailer and would not part with it. I believe selling it will limit the market for your boat considerably. Only you can decide if the value of keeping the boat another year (halfway through this season) is worth it.
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Prospector
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Response Posted - 07/14/2010 :  21:23:49  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
IMHO - Depends on your buyer. Around here we hire towtrucks to move teh boats to/from teh marins. Any decent flatbed will do so a trailer isn;t an issue.

Once I move (next year), the new club requires a certain design of cradle for their marine railway and no trailers.

Other clubs do things differently ranging from collapsing cradles to anythign goes. I bought a boat on a cradle, and sometimes wish for a trailer, but not enough to buy one - most days. Its gotten to be less of an issue the longer I've owned the boat. For 2 trips a year I wouldn't pay the premium.

I wouldn't buy a boat on stands though. They scare me - mostly because I'm just not familiar with them.
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superbob
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Response Posted - 07/15/2010 :  12:04:32  Show Profile  Visit superbob's Homepage
You might want to look at it this way: Come time to sell your boat list its price without the trailer and list separately as an extra the trailer for X amount of dollars. I would not even think about selling the trailer until the boat was sold with or without it. Just a thought.
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 07/15/2010 :  13:29:51  Show Profile
Thaks, guys. Like I said, I was just thinking aloud and your comments are pretty much aligned with mine. I'll sell the trailer with the boat. Maybe I'll list it as Bob suggests though.
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KD4AO
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Response Posted - 07/16/2010 :  05:51:22  Show Profile
John, my boat sold basically yesterday. We arrived at a sale based on allowing the person buying to not include the motor. I feel the motor is saleable alone and that is the way it will go. I came down what I considered a reasonable amount without a motor. The reason the purchaser was interested in this is to use a much lighter motor in the interest of racing and balance.
My point to this is, allow yourself to be flexible, and it appears you are thinking that way now. I will say that a trailer is generally a big positive because of the cost of transportation but a large number of people don't need the trailer after the boat is delivered. You might even consider selling without the trailer but offer to deliver the boat for some price less than commercial transportation, then sell the trailer.
Good Luck!
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 07/16/2010 :  08:42:39  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by KD4AO</i>
<br />...You might even consider selling without the trailer but offer to deliver the boat for some price less than commercial transportation, then sell the trailer.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">That would allow you to list a lower price for the boat (ala carte), a separate price for the trailer, and perhaps a "discount" for the whole package. You could also stipulate that the trailer is not available separately until the boat is sold, so the boat buyer has the first option, or you can deliver the boat to the ala carte buyer.
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